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this State, as shown bj the decreasing number of cows year 

 by year. We are glad to note that, according to the last 

 assessors' returns, the decline has ceased, and the business 

 seems at present to be holding its own. 



Pasteurized Milk. 



Most of the market milk sold in Boston is pasteurized. 

 Many physicians and sanitarians advocate this as a precau- 

 tion against disease. The great objection to pasteurization 

 is that it provides an opportunity to sell old milk that other- 

 wise might be unsalable. Clean milk pasteurized is a safe 

 and desirable product, and there should be regulations by 

 local authorities requiring in some way a guarantee in rela- 

 tion to its age, and also its bacteria count at the time of pas- 

 teurizing. 



Condensed Milk. 



The act recommended last year by the Bureau, requiring 

 a formula for the dilution of reduced milks with water, to 

 make standard fluid milk equivalent, became a law Jan. 1, 

 1912. It is reported that twenty carloads of condensed and 

 evaporated milk are brought into this State each month, and 

 more than 17,000 retail dealers are selling these goods. The 

 evaporated milk output in the United States increased 154 

 per cent, and the condensed milk output 6 per cent, during 

 the five years 1905-10. If evaporated and condensed milks 

 are used to such a large degree it seems desirable that the age 

 be known, and we recommend the following amendment to 

 section 59, chapter 56, of the Revised Laws, with a view to 

 accomplishing this result: — 



An Act relative to the Sale of Condensed, Concentrated or 

 Evaporated Milk or Skimmedi Milk. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section fifty-nine of ehnpter fifty-six of the Re\nsed 

 Laws is hereby amended by inserting? before I he word "milk", 

 where it first occurs in line two, the words: — condensed or evapo- 

 rated, — by striking: out the word "condensed", in line two, — by 

 striking out the Avord " and ", in line four, — by inserting after 



